Research Project Center for Criminal Justice and Artificial Intelligence (CenCAI)

CenCAI is the first research center wordwide that deals the ethical questions that arise from the use of AI in the criminal justice system. The purpose of the research center is to consider ways in which AI can be used to improve the work at the criminal courts, in particular at sentencing, and to develop solutions to the many ethical challenges that such application currently face.

CenCAI conducts research on questions such as: Can it ever be justified to replace human sentencing judges with robot judges, or should AI only be used as advisory systems? What does it mean to say that one sentencing algorithm is performing better than another competing model? Is it ever acceptable to use “black box” models at the criminal courts? How should one deal with the risk of biases in sentencing algorithms? What are the risks of introducing AI within populist sentencing systems? How can AI be used to increase trust in the criminal courts?

CenCAI serves as an international hub for philosophers, legal scholars, criminologists, computer scientists, and other researchers with an interest in the use of AI in the criminal justice system. The center is funded by the Carlsberg Foundation with a generous research grant of 21 million DKK.